Taking a morning walk this morning, I noticed that the heat was already heading up into the 80’s. Warm and getting warmer…A great way to start hurricane season.
Over the weekend the the mosquitoes returned with a vengeance. That little bit of rain last week seems to have hatched out a new crop of the little [...]

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Another long term effect of last falls hurricane season…
Doctors who work in Houston’s busiest maternity ward say they’re expecting an especially bustling June, leading some to conclude that Hurricane Ike was the perfect storm for making babies.
It’s been eight months since Ike knocked out the region’s electricity, leaving many with no television, Internet access or [...]

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My reading on the web keeps coming across a common thread…It’s that over and over in blog posts and comments people are talking about buying seeds and starting to raise vegetables again. It looks like I’m not the only one making the connection. Here is what Verlyn Klinkenborg had to [...]

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Coffee Muse
I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I’m afraid I won’t be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep. Therefore, I celebrate it two hours later when I am fully conscious.
Coffee – Niemann Opinion Art Blog [...]

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After the storm, once you realize you’ve lived through another, your awareness of your surroundings is contracted. You begin by wandering around just your own little space surrounding your home…Checking for damage, fixing the immediate needs if possible.
Then you begin to expand your awareness to your neighbors. First you check out those immediately around you, [...]

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We got our power and phones back last night. The neighbors are still dark. I don’t know exactly what the it is the government learned from Katrina, but living through their opinion of a well run after disaster relief effort I am unimpressed.
Ike plowed through here like a farmer with an old mule…Trees, power poles, [...]

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This isn’t looking very good…Again.
The latest 12Z (8 am EDT) computer models continue to show that Ike will track northwest into the central Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, there has been a major shift in the model tracks for Thursday and Friday. All of the models are calling for a more westward [...]

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With Hurricane Ike set to travel nearly the length of Cuba today before heading into the Gulf of Mexico, residents from Texas to Florida face another week of worrying about whether their communities will fall in the storm’s path.
Some public officials said Sunday they are concerned that the frequency of hurricanes this year may cause [...]

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